now on bbc news, it s time to click. this week, we are guarding against danger and disaster. shona is in sweden to put the first average female crash test dummies through their paces. 0k! i m ready to be rescued right now! that looks chilly. it certainly does. but how could drones help rescue swimmers in distress? lj takes the plunge to find out. and then from cold and wet to hot and dry. laura checks out the ai watching for wildfires. the alert s come through. i didn t even notice that, but the camera did. as cars get ever more powerful and ever more numerous, the quest for road safety is an ongoing battle. some cities, like london, have introduced congestion zones, which reduce the amount of traffic and make things safer for pedestrians, but there s also research, of course, going into how to protect the passengers inside the vehicles too. car safety testing is still largely done on the same crash test dummies that we used in the 1980s, and they were based on the male form.
But it is their weakest quarterly growth in nearly a decade. robot fish didn t gobble up micro plastics from water has been brought to light by the university of surrey. gilbert is a prototype of this year s winning entry in the uk s robotics contest and it has gills that can filter out plastics in the water as it swims and free to download for anyone with a 3d printer. we have robots on lakes, coming to the left, and it s an ongoing programme of making a water cleaner. into the meta verse now, where interpol is looking to catch the next generation of criminals. the global policing organisation has announced it will be training officers in its own virtual world in hopes that by experiencing the meta verse first hand, it will be better equipped to police it. and finally scientists at the national university of singapore said they created the world s first interactive mouthguard.